UPSC CSE Mains Syllabus of Public Administration 2016

Paper - IAdministrative Theory1. Introduction: Meaning, scope and significance of Public
Administration; Wilson’s vision of Public Administration; Evolution of the
discipline and its present status; New Public Administration; Public Choice
approach; Challenges of liberalization, Privatisation, Globalisation; Good
Governance: concept and application; New Public Management.

5. Accountability and control: Concepts of accountability and control;
Legislative, Executive and Judicial control over administration; Citizen and
Administration; Role of media, interest groups, voluntary organizations; Civil
society;Citizen’s Charters; Right to Information; Social audit.

7. Comparative Public Administration: Historical and sociological factors
affecting administrative systems; Administration and politics in different
countries; Current status of Comparative Public Administration; Ecology and
administration; Riggsian models and their critique.

8. Development Dynamics: Concept of development; Changing profile of
development administration; ‘Antidevelopment thesis’; Bureaucracy and
development; Strong state versus the market debate; Impact of liberalisation on
administration in developing countries; Women and development - the self-help
group movement.

10. Public Policy: Models of policy-making and their critique; Processes
of conceptualisation, planning, implementation, monitoring, evaluation and
review and their limitations; State theories and public policy formulation.

Paper - IIIndian Administration1. Evolution of Indian Administration: Kautilya’s Arthashastra; Mughal
administration; Legacy of British rule in politics and administration -
Indianization of public services, revenue administration, district
administration, local self-government.

2. Philosophical and Constitutional framework of government: Salient
features and value premises; Constitutionalism; Political culture; Bureaucracy
and democracy; Bureaucracy and development.

3. Public Sector Undertakings: Public sector in modern India; Forms of
Public Sector Undertakings; Problems of autonomy, accountability and control;
Impact of liberalization and privatization.

5. Plans and Priorities: Machinery of planning; Role, composition and
functions of the Planning Commission and the National Development Council;
‘Indicative’ planning; Process of plan formulation at Union and State levels;
Constitutional Amendments (1992) and decentralized planning for economic
development and social justice.

6. State Government and Administration: Union-State administrative,
legislative and financial relations; Role of the Finance Commission; Governor;
Chief Minister; Council of Ministers; Chief Secretary; State Secretariat;
Directorates.

7. District Administration since Independence: Changing role of the
Collector; Unionstate- local relations; Imperatives of development management
and law and order administration; District administration and democratic
decentralization.

9. Financial Management: Budget as a political instrument; Parliamentary
control of public expenditure; Role of finance ministry in monetary and fiscal
area; Accounting techniques; Audit; Role of Controller General of Accounts and
Comptroller and Auditor General of India.

10. Administrative Reforms since Independence: Major concerns; Important
Committees and Commissions; Reforms in financial management and human resource
development; Problems of implementation.

12. Urban Local Government: Municipal governance: main features,
structures, finance and problem areas; 74th Constitutional Amendment;
Globallocal debate; New localism; Development dynamics, politics and
administration with special reference to city management.

13. Law and Order Administration: British legacy; National Police
Commission; Investigative agencies; Role of central and state agencies including
paramilitary forces in maintenance of law and order and countering insurgency
and terrorism; Criminalisation of politics and administration; Police- public
relations; Reforms in Police.